Category: Games Screenbound: Getting Our Heads Around the Brain-Breaking “5D” Platformer Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published March 10, 2026 2D platformer or 3D platformer? Many will have a definitive preference to that decades-old question – but Screenbound dares to ask: why not both? It’s a simple enough pitch, but playing the game’s GDC demo…
I’m pretty sure it was World of Warcraft where I learned the phrase “exploit early, exploit often” whenever players discovered something Blizzard probably didn’t want them to. Buying items for cheaper than they sell for was a common one, but there have been worse things, like slaying hundreds of frogs for a shortcut to godhood.Usually…
I’m not sure what’s more popular on Roblox, games about pets or games about anime, but both are always sure to include freebies like those found in Catch and Tame codes. Developer Manta Games’ new animal ranching sim arms you with a lasso to nab critters in the wild and drag them back home to…
Along with some new sets. Who wants more MAR10 news, specifically more Lego news? Nintendo and Lego have announced that we’re getting some brand new Mario sets in 2027. But the big news here is that at last, we’re getting a proper Mario minifigure. We’ve been stuck with the chunky guy for such a long…
Category: Games At Fate’s End: Hands-On with Thunder Lotus’ Gorgeous New Action-Adventure Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Published March 10, 2026 Most people know Thunder Lotus games for Spiritfarer, their beautiful 2020 management sim about shepherding the newly dead to the other side. That cozy style of gameplay is actually more of an outlier from…
Slay the Spire 2 has some big shoes to fill. The original was a truly foundational game, setting so much of the template of the modern roguelike and spawning an army of deckbuilder imitators in its wake. The question is, can its long-awaited sequel live up to that legacy? Hmm. You know what, it might…
Pass me the weed killer. It’s that time of the year again when we Brits squint at our DAY / MONTH / YEAR calendar formation and try to see the ‘MAR10’ hidden inside. Yes, MAR10 Day is once again here, and it’s a particularly noteworthy one this time, being the 10th year that Nintendo has…
Category: Games March 10, 2026 Replaced Is Finally Almost Here – We Take Another Look at the Cyberpunk Action-Platformer Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Summary The story of Replaced takes place in a post-nuclear dystopia that looks torn out of every excellent cyberpunk noir thriller you can think of. We’re hooked on the larger promise…
Sega Sammy has released a new set of financial results, along with a Q&A explaining some of the finer points, but the long-and-short of it is: you all say you like our games, so why aren’t you buying more of them? Amidst some truly incredible corporate jargon (what’s a “B2B Omnichannel Solution Provider”?) Sega says…
Surveillance culture is bleak. Just this weekend I saw this charming animated ditty pitching self-described ‘Family Safety App’ Life360, in which a mother sings about all the awful things that could happen to her child and location tracking is proffered as a panacea. Blegh. Even worse, a recent US court ruling involving Life360’s own corporate…